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marketplace this month in gay history Born this Month 1769 – ALEXANDER HUMBOLDT, German naturalist and traveler, born (d: 1859). He was a prolific scientist studying everything from the humanities to the magnetic differential between the poles and the equator.He was considered a genius and was extraordinarily handsome according to pictures rendered of him throughout his lifetime. He was always thought to be homosexual, with the rumors having begun with the suspicion that he and Bonpland were lovers. What was suspected seemed to be confirmed in the minds of his contemporaries when he named his valet Seifert as his sole heir.

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